Update to current CLion versions

[jowilkes]

This will be a great plugin to have - once it starts working in current CLion release versions, and becomes available in JetBrains marketplace anymore.

As of 2022-10, the plugin is not compatible with CLion, and does not show up in JetBrains marketplace.
see https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/11956-conan/versions#tabs

I imagine it is easy for those who know the plugin already, probably just changing a few config files and recompiling. Please look into this so the plugin becomes available and usable again.

[radonish]

@memsharded - I saw you mention at the beginning of the year that the plugins were not getting attention due to Conan 2.0.

The inability to use the Conan plugin altogether within the latest CLion releases (September's 2022.3 release and beyond) is painful. I understand that new features/improvements for the plugin need to wait due to the focus being Conan 2.0, but it would be very helpful if a plugin fix could be pushed out so it could at least be used with the latest CLion releases.

Thank you!

[zhangzikai]

@memsharded Conan team shouldn't put ide's plugin a lower priority. This will cause user churn.More users,more packages,better conan

[memsharded]

Hi all,

Thanks for your feedback.
I am sorry we couldn't prioritize this. Handling the thousands (literal, not an exaggeration) of pull requests to ConanCenter, or the development and support of the Conan client with the quickly growing number of users has the team very over capacity.

The good news is that this is an open source project, the plugin itself is open source here, this is not only the issue tracker. If this plugin is important for you, please do a contribution Pull Request to fix it to help moving this forward. Thanks!

[cyber5tar86]

@memsharded i wish to update the conan plugin in order to work with the recent versions of CLion; could you please give me some general info regarding what should be fixed?

[memsharded]

Hi @cyber5tar86

Thanks very much for your offer to help. This is one of the difficult parts of it, we don't have the expertise about this plugin either. It was developed by a former colleague that left some time ago. No one in the team knows about the plugin code.

Apparently, what the reporters are saying is that there is some incompatibility in the APIs used, and that is what needs to be fixed. There are some other open tickets that could have hints, like #94

It is also important to know that Conan has changed a lot since then, and know things like using 2 profiles is very common, so maybe the plugin should be adapted at some point to allow the 2 profiles.